Calendar and like display device



Oct. 14, 1941. p DICKERSON 7 2,259,336

CALENDAR AND LIKE DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Feb. 8, 1939 AdOQ DECEMBER FEBRUARY v A v 4a v (47 4 y 7 V a 53 49 53 49 55 a 49 57 55 JOHN 00E 7, JOHN DOE JOHN DOE QHN DOE COPY v COPY COPY COPY JARY; DECEMBER FEBRUARY DECEMBER INVEVTOR.

Patented Oct. 14, 1941 CALENDAR AND LIKE DISPLAY nEvIon- Rawson P. Dickerson, East Orange, N. J. Q Application February 8, 1939, Serial- No.2515, 237 f 1 Claim.

The invention relates to calendars or like dis play devices suitable for hanging on a wall-and on whose pages may be suitably illustrated and/ or displayed various data.

Mor particularly, the invention relates to a multi-page calendar consisting of a plurality of transversely foldable sheets and having the desired matter applied generally to both sides.

The invention has for an object to faciliate the manufacture and assembly of calendars of this nature to reduce thereby the cost of the same; also, to provide a construction which will not only enable the calendar to be suitably suspended, but will admit of the suspending element receiving advertising matter of difierent distributors with standardized matter on the various pages of the calendar. Such advertising matter, when applied to one side of the element, will then appear with the standardized matter on one half of the total number of pages; and when applied to both sides, with all of the pages of the calendar.

A further object of the invention is to provide a calendar of compact form adapted for ready suspension and so foldable as to admit of a maximum amount of illustrated display and data with a minimum of required sheets.

Still another object is to render the calendar quickly changeable for different months or groups of months of a year, the arrangement being such that the desired matter may conveniently and readily be brought into display position.

In carrying out the invention, a plurality of sheets, generally of rectangular conformation, is provided with the display matter applied as a rule to both sides of a sheet as by printing the same thereon; and each sheet is transversely foldable to afford four pages of display matter, if desired. The folding is effected preferably along the median line of a sheet, thus affording two equal-size portions or halves, the sheets being stapled together along the line of fold, whereby the halves of said sheets may be turned as leaves.

In addition, all of the sheets but one are provided at the line of fold with apertures extending in opposite directions from said median line, while the said one sheet has but a single aperture from the median line and a tongue element designed to pass therethrough as well as through the other apertures as one half is folded uponthe other. This tongue may be perforated for suspension of the calendar therefrom.

The nature of the invention, however, will best be understood when described in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. l isan obverse plan view, and Fig; 2 is a reverse plan view illustrating the novel calendar.

Fig; 3 is an enlarged detail section taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 1 of the drawing.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the calendar; and Fig, '5 is a rear elevation thereof.

Fig. 6 is a plan view illustrating the manner of changing over from one page to another.

Fig. 7 is a front elevation illustrating the calendar thus changed over.

Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of a modified form of the calendar.

The calendar, as shown, is constructed of a strip of paper of the desired thickness and weight and of a size and shape conforming to the calendarto be provided therefrom.

Reference being had to Figs. 1-7 of the drawing, the calendar is made up in a booklet form comprising, in the case of a twelve-month calendar, three sheets 45, 4B, and which are united intermediate their ends (or six half sheets united along their upper edges), preferably along the median line as indicated at 48, and, for example, by means of staples 49. By this means a booklet of twelve pages is obtained, one to carry the printed matter for each of the different months of the year, the front page 41 then bearing the calendar for the month of January, and the rear page 41, the calendar for the month of December with the calender for the months of November and June, respectively, on the opposite side. The innermost pages 45 and 45 would bear, respectively, the calendars for th months of September and April on the one side and for March and August on the opposite side, while the intermediate pages 46 and 46' would bear, respectively, the calendars for the months of October and May on the one side and for February and July on the other side.

Figs. 1 and 3 illustrate the calendar opened at its middle portion with the respective sheets disposed parallel to one another, thus exposing the calendar portions for April and September, while Fig. 2 is a reverse position of the same and shows the calendar portions for the months of January and December. In use, the different sheet halves are disposed one behind the other as indicated in Figs. 4, 5, and 7, Figs. 4 and 5 showing, respectively, the front and the rear of the calendar pack for exposing the calendar portions for the months of January and December, respectively.

There is provided in each of the sheets 45, 46,

and 4'! an aperture extending from the line of fold, such aperture, except in the case of the backing or rearmost sheet, extending in both directions from the line of fold into each of the page halves providing a sheet and contiguously to each other to merge into one whole or double aperture. Thus, there is cut in the sheet 45 the two contiguous apertures 50 and 50'; in the sheet 46, the apertures 5| and 5|, while in the sheet 41 there is provided, but a single aperture 52. In this latter sheet, an associated tongue 53 conforming substantially to the contour of the aperture 52 and the other apertures, extends integrally from the half 41' into said aperture. This tongue is provided, also, with a hole or perforation 54 for suspension of the calendar, and there may be printed on its opposite sides suitable advertising matter asindicated, in addition to the copy on a sheet. A large run of the standardized portions of the calendar display matter may be made at one time and the advertising matter printed as required upon the said tongue.

. To change over from one month to another it is necessary merely to turn upwardly the half portion of the exposed pages, as indicated in Fig. 6 of the drawing by the arrows, and then drop the same behind the associated halves. Thus, as indicated, by lifting the half 41 upwardly and dropping it behind the remaining pages, the page bearing the February calendar will be exposed, as indicated in Fig. 7 of the drawing. When the page halves bearing the calendars for the first five months of the year have been thus turned upwardly and exposing the calendar for June, the calendar as a whole is merely turned over laterally, which will expose the calendar portion for the month of July; and the remaining calendar portions may then successively be brought into view by similarly raising the half portions of a sheet.

In thus shifting from one page to another, the apertures in the sheet portions will pass over the tongue 53 with the exception of the portion 41', which constitutes the backing sheet half wherein only the one aperture provided therein passes.

In Fig. 8, there is illustrated a modification in the arrangement of the backing sheet, more especially in the provision of the tongue element 55 thereof which, instead of being an integral portion of the last or back half portion of the calendar, is constituted as a narrow, separate, transvers strip attached to the back half 56 (cut with double aperture similar to the remaining sheets) at its upper portion with the tongue 55 projecting therefrom at the fold line of the group of folded sheets, as indicated. By this expedient, a smaller press may be utilized in printing the advertising matter or the like- 51 which will vary with the different distributors of the calendar, it being understood that the matter printed upon the calendar proper will be more or less standardized while the advertising matter on the tongue Varies with the difierent distributors. The operation of the calendar to expose different pages thereof is precisely similar to that hereinbefore set forth.

I claim;

A multipage calendar, consisting of a plurality of sheets printed on both faces and folded transversely, all of said sheets but one having contiguous apertures in the respective foldable portions at opposite sides of a fold line, saidone sheet having but a single aperture and a fixed tongue element of the contour of said single aperture having printed matter thereon and perforated for suspending the calendar, said 3 tongue element being adapted to 'pass through the single aperture and the said apertures as a corresponding foldable portion is. folded upon another for display of printed matter upon both faces, the printed matter on said tongue element being exposed through said apertures, and means assembling the plurality of sheets along the line of fold.

RAWSON P. DICKERSO N. 

